State of Swimming in Ontario [2]

Membership Growth as per Swim Ontario

When an organization “grows” by counting groups that have existed but were not included in a prior census that does not entail growth. It is however the manipulation of data in an attempt to cause the reader to conclude that there is indeed authentic growth.

With a moratorium in place, yet with the need to demonstrate to the Government of Ontario “growth” and in order to be able to submit for grants to support a supposedly “growing” sport, Swim Ontario was forced to obtain members somehow… the following posts will detail how Swim Ontario took to “hostile takeovers” in an attempt to further manipulate its data sets so as to create the illusion of growth.